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On October
18-22 Shoushi Technological University hosted the delegation from Yerevan
Physics Institute headed by director Ashot Chilingarian.
The Shoushi
Technological University was established in 2015 by the decision of the NKR
Government. As a higher education institution, the main activities of the
university are focused on the organization of engineering,...

On these days A. Alikhanian National Science Laboratory is
hosting Prof. Jean Lilensten, research director at the Institut de Planétologie
et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (France) and one of the founders of the Space
Weather discipline in Europe.
On May 23, 2016 prof. Lilensten delivered a lecture titled
“Recent advances in auroral physics: the...

Armenian
government allocates a grant to A.Alikhanian National Laboratory (AANL) for
creating a network for measuring most important geophysical parameters. The
project is allocated to the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) of AANL and is funded
with support of the Michigan chapter of the Armenian Engineers and Scientists
of America organization.
Growing...

The
problem of how lightning is initiated inside thunderclouds is probably one of
the biggest mysteries in the atmospheric sciences. Recently established high
energy processes in the atmosphere, i.e. Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGF) –
brief bursts of gamma rays observed by orbiting gamma ray observatories and
Thunderstorm Ground Enhancements (TGEs) – sizable...

Physics is more than a collection of facts and equations - it is
an evolving conception of the universe through which we seek to understand
ourselves
The primary goals of the Master's program started at YErPhI in 2014 are to
impart expertise in current research topics on the basis of a deep knowledge of
the fundamentals of the experimental physics. Research...

Yerevan, Armenia, 5-9 October 2015
The problem of how lightning is initiated inside thunderclouds
is probably one of the biggest mysteries in the atmospheric sciences. The
relationship between thundercloud electrification, lightning activity,
wide-band radio emission and particle fluxes has not been yet unambiguously
established. One of the most intriguing...

Twenty-four students
from Yerevan State University and the Armenian State Pedagogical University
participated in the Advanced Summer School in Physics that was held from Aug.
17-20 at the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI), named in honor of its founder
Artem Alikhanyan.
YerPhI...

In the top list of 100 candidates for the flight to Mars as part
of the project Mars One proved three residents of Russia. They include 50 men
and 50 women from around the world who still have to go the final stage of
selection scheduled for 2025 expedition to the Red Planet.
Mars One believes that human settlement on Mars will be the most
profound and influential...

Lightning has been around
since the dawn of time, but what triggers it is still an enigma. Now,
researchers propose that the answer could lie in high-energy particles that are
accelerated in the atmosphere and ionize the air, releasing free electrons and
leading to a massive discharge.
Thunderclouds become
electrically charged from the collisions of microscopic...